Marin Brewing Co.
Larkspur, CA
Available: CA, VA, Pa, DC
This is a strong, unfiltered wheat ale made with North American malts (65 percent wheat malt) and European hops.
ABV: 6.9
ABW: 6.1
Color: n/a
Bitterness: 27
Gravity: 1070
Beer Talk
Hefe Doppel Weizen Ale
Published March 2001, Volume 22, Number 1
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Fred Eckhardt
An American style double wheat with good clean aromatics--a fresh clean taste with a delicious, crisp wheat character--and no brash or assertive elements. This beer is a thoroughly pleasant and enjoyable libation needing only the company of an orange chocolate truffle square to complete its mission.
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Garrett Oliver
The beer pours hazy gold with a pillowy white head. The aroma is hoppy with some nice exotic fruits--passionfruit, mango. Bitterness is restrained up front on the palate, leading to a medium-bodied silky smooth center. The beer finishes clean and dry with a pleasant, slight acidic zip. Despite the misleading moniker, this is not a “hefe doppel weizen,” but a strong American-style wheat beer. The fake German name annoys me, but the beer certainly doesn’t; it’s brewed with great finesse and would pair well with anything from a salade nicoise to a shrimp quesadilla. Makes you proud to be an American, or at least it should.
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Michael Jackson
It is unusual to find a pale (iridescent gold, in this case) wheat beer at double bock strength, but this one is, by the standards of microbreweries, an old-established product. In addition to being stylistically distinctive, it is a well-composed beer. I have enjoyed it on several occasions and did again this time. Very fruity, with suggestions of Seville orange peel, lemon juice and fresh apple, but syrupy, tasty in its maltiness, and beautifully rounded. Some tannin in a robust, balancing dryness.
